Now this is a headline we love:
Rep. Jordan Teuscher, the bill’s author, says the measure rebalances the power dynamic between government and employee unions.
“In the private sector, when you do collective bargaining, you’re bargaining with a company that has to make a profit. If they don’t make a profit, they go out of business,” he said. “In the public sector, the government never goes out of business, and because of that, at the end of the day, if a public employer makes a bad deal, the person who has to pay on the other side is the taxpayer.”
ALEC ranks Utah as the top state for economic development, and this measure will surely widen its lead. We hope other states follow suit.